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Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire
Stanford Hall is a Grade II* listed 18th-century English country house in Stanford on Soar, Nottinghamshire, just north of Loughborough. It is home to the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC).
The manor of Stanford, complete with its stone manor house, was sold in 1661 by the Raynes family to a London alderman, Thomas Lewes (died c. 1702). He was succeeded by his grandson Francis Lewis (c. 1692–1744), who was an MP and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1713–14. The estate then passed to the fourth and last generation of Leweses, Charles Lewes, who died with no heir. After him it passed by marriage to the Dashwood family, of whom the first to occupy the property was Charles Vere Dashwood. He commissioned William Anderson of Loughborough to rebuild the house in brick between 1771 and 1774. The house is constructed in red brick with ashlar dressings, with a hipped slate roof topped with a painted balustrade, built in two storeys with a seven-bay frontage. It then descended in the Dashwood family to Charles Lewes Dashwood, who sold it in 1887 to Richard Ratcliff, a brewer from Burton-on-Trent.
Ratcliff employed the local architect W. H. Fletcher to make substantial changes to the house, which included building new two-storey wings flanking the main block and a new service wing. The house passed on his death in 1898 to his son, also Richard, By 1928 the owner was Richard Snr.'s granddaughter Kathleen, who had married Lawrence Kimball.
In 1928 Sir Julien Cahn purchased the hall from the Kimballs for £70,000 (equivalent to £5,327,303 as of 2023).
Here Cahn commissioned the architect Percy Richard Morley Horder to build a cricket pitch, nine-hole golf course, bowling green, large trout lake, sea lion pool, penguin pool, lido, tennis court and thatched pavilion, an outdoor heated swimming pool with coral walls holding fountains and artificial caves added to the wooded parkland and formal gardens.
The largest addition was a theatre designed by Cecil Aubrey Masey built in 1937 for £73,000 (equivalent to £5,949,849 as of 2023) which seated 352 people. The walls were decorated with murals by Beatrice MacDermott. It comprised a raked auditorium, orchestra pit and Wurlitzer organ which can be raised and lowered during performances. The organ was made for Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris. It was purchased by Cahn for £20,000 and enlarged when it was installed.
The house was extensively remodelled over the next decade under the direction of Sir Charles Allom, principal of arguably the finest of the large interior decorating concerns, White Allom Ltd. Together with Queen Mary, Allom advised on the redecoration of Buckingham Palace and had many multi-millionaire clients, such as Henry Clay Frick, whose Fifth Avenue town house now houses the Frick Collection and whose decoration by White Allom is highly regarded. The same is true of Stanford Hall.
Stanford Hall retains most of the interior structures and installations of Cahn's day, though most of the art moderne marble bathrooms were removed in the 1960s. The furnishings selected with Allom were of the highest quality. The inclusion of many fine antiques, and the theming of the rooms by date and country gave the impression of a house that had evolved over time. By 1940 it was one of the finest and most luxurious of small country houses in the United Kingdom. Cahn died in the White Allom panelled library in 1944. In 1939 he had lent part of the house to be used for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers.
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Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire
Stanford Hall is a Grade II* listed 18th-century English country house in Stanford on Soar, Nottinghamshire, just north of Loughborough. It is home to the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC).
The manor of Stanford, complete with its stone manor house, was sold in 1661 by the Raynes family to a London alderman, Thomas Lewes (died c. 1702). He was succeeded by his grandson Francis Lewis (c. 1692–1744), who was an MP and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1713–14. The estate then passed to the fourth and last generation of Leweses, Charles Lewes, who died with no heir. After him it passed by marriage to the Dashwood family, of whom the first to occupy the property was Charles Vere Dashwood. He commissioned William Anderson of Loughborough to rebuild the house in brick between 1771 and 1774. The house is constructed in red brick with ashlar dressings, with a hipped slate roof topped with a painted balustrade, built in two storeys with a seven-bay frontage. It then descended in the Dashwood family to Charles Lewes Dashwood, who sold it in 1887 to Richard Ratcliff, a brewer from Burton-on-Trent.
Ratcliff employed the local architect W. H. Fletcher to make substantial changes to the house, which included building new two-storey wings flanking the main block and a new service wing. The house passed on his death in 1898 to his son, also Richard, By 1928 the owner was Richard Snr.'s granddaughter Kathleen, who had married Lawrence Kimball.
In 1928 Sir Julien Cahn purchased the hall from the Kimballs for £70,000 (equivalent to £5,327,303 as of 2023).
Here Cahn commissioned the architect Percy Richard Morley Horder to build a cricket pitch, nine-hole golf course, bowling green, large trout lake, sea lion pool, penguin pool, lido, tennis court and thatched pavilion, an outdoor heated swimming pool with coral walls holding fountains and artificial caves added to the wooded parkland and formal gardens.
The largest addition was a theatre designed by Cecil Aubrey Masey built in 1937 for £73,000 (equivalent to £5,949,849 as of 2023) which seated 352 people. The walls were decorated with murals by Beatrice MacDermott. It comprised a raked auditorium, orchestra pit and Wurlitzer organ which can be raised and lowered during performances. The organ was made for Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris. It was purchased by Cahn for £20,000 and enlarged when it was installed.
The house was extensively remodelled over the next decade under the direction of Sir Charles Allom, principal of arguably the finest of the large interior decorating concerns, White Allom Ltd. Together with Queen Mary, Allom advised on the redecoration of Buckingham Palace and had many multi-millionaire clients, such as Henry Clay Frick, whose Fifth Avenue town house now houses the Frick Collection and whose decoration by White Allom is highly regarded. The same is true of Stanford Hall.
Stanford Hall retains most of the interior structures and installations of Cahn's day, though most of the art moderne marble bathrooms were removed in the 1960s. The furnishings selected with Allom were of the highest quality. The inclusion of many fine antiques, and the theming of the rooms by date and country gave the impression of a house that had evolved over time. By 1940 it was one of the finest and most luxurious of small country houses in the United Kingdom. Cahn died in the White Allom panelled library in 1944. In 1939 he had lent part of the house to be used for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers.
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